Cleaning Up Registration
After a series of reforms, the stamp duty and the registration process have paved way for better returns to the exchequer. Now the reformed...
SPECTRE AND IMPUNITY
Every time a fresh debate surrounding removal of AFSPA is energised, the army raises a spectre to oppose it. Past all other arguments, the...
AFSPA Snake And Ladder
Desperate to make some political capital, chief minister Omar Abdullah made a rushed announcement to withdraw AFSPA from some areas in the state. What...
NHPC In Focus
India’s hydropower giant NHPC is again under spotlight. While the International Court of Arbitration (ICA) at the Hague has barred it to raise any...
SEE Is Through
Within three months of the Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs (CCEA) approving the Rs 235 crores Skill, Empowerment and Employment (SEE) scheme – now...
Rehabilitation or Harassment?
Released or ex-militants have had to continue suffer harassment and indignity long after having endured physical torture during their detention by government forces. After...
Coin Scrap
Coins and their denominations are markers of history. Like the 2 paise, the 3 paise and the 10 paise coins earlier, the 25 paisehas...
Tagging Citizens
Barely two per cent of India’s 1.2 billion people have got the 12-digit Unique Identity number but the UID Authority of India is pushing...
Permitting prying
The Union Cabinet’s approval of NATGRID has again raised fears of intrusion into citizens’ privacy in the absence of any privacy laws in the...
Policing the rivers
With the increase in incidences of drowning in Kashmir, the small team of rescue and recovery River Police is ill-equipped and lacks manpower to...
Home Coming
Two decades after the mass exodus of Kashmiri Pandits, a combo offer of employment and rehabilitation by the state government beckons them to return....
Legislating conversion
After years of crying hoarse over the arbitrary conversion of land use, the government finally came out with a bill but the lawmaker’s burnt...
Not ready to pay
The state may not be able to realize water usage charges from NHPC, which sources say is contemplating court intervention to bypass the state...
Budget 2011-12: Structural Reforms
Structural reforms are like medical surgery. Such surgical operations have to be carried out only when they become inevitable and they always result into...
Rangarajan III
Rangarajan committee has submitted its report on employment generation in J&K. Will the recommendations see implementation or will it meet the same fate as...
